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NAME
     date - print or set the system date and time

SYNOPSIS
     date [-u] [-s new-date] [+FORMAT] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]

DESCRIPTION
     This manual page documents the GNU version  of  date.   date
     with  no  arguments prints the current time and date (in the
     format of the `%c' directive described below).  If given  an
     argument  that starts with a `+', it prints the current time
     and date in a format controlled by that argument, which  has
     the   same  format  as  the  format  string  passed  to  the
     `strftime' function.  Except for directives that start  with
     `%', characters in that string are printed unchanged.

     The directives are:

     %    a literal %

     n    a newline

     t    a horizontal tab

     Time fields:

     %H   hour (00..23)

     %I   hour (00..12)

     %M   minute (00..59)

     %p   locale's AM or PM

     %r   time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M)

     %S   second (00..61)

     %T   time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)

     %X   locale's time representation (%H:%M:%S)

     %Z   time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no  time  zone  is
          determinable

     Date fields:

     %a   locale's abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)

     %A   locale's   full   weekday   name,    variable    length
          (Sunday..Saturday)




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     %b   locale's abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)

     %B   locale's   full    month    name,    variable    length
          (January..December)

     %c   locale's date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989)

     %d   day of month (01..31)

     %D   date (mm/dd/yy)

     %h   same as %b

     %j   day of year (001..366)

     %m   month (01..12)

     %U   week number of year with Sunday as first  day  of  week
          (00..53)

     %w   day of week (0..6)

     %W   week number of year with Monday as first  day  of  week
          (00..53)

     %x   locale's date representation (mm/dd/yy)

     %y   last two digits of year (00..99)

     %Y   year (1970...)

     If given an argument that does not start with `+', date sets
     the  system  clock  to  the  time and date specified by that
     argument.  The argument must  consist  entirely  of  digits,
     which have the following meaning:

     MM   month

     DD   day within month

     hh   hour

     mm   minute

     CC   first two digits of year (optional)

     YY   last two digits of year (optional)

     ss   second (optional)

     Only the superuser can set the system clock.




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  OPTIONS
     -_s _n_e_w-_d_a_t_e
          Set the time and date to  _n_e_w-_d_a_t_e,  which  can  be  in
          almost  any common format.  It can contain month names,
          timezones, `am' and `pm', etc.

     -_u   Print or set the time and date in Universal Coordinated
          Time  (also known as Greenwich Mean Time) instead of in
          local (wall clock) time.














































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